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Union Boss: What’s the Rush on Increasing Teacher Quality?

true liberal Wrote: Dec 30, 2012 8:17 AM

Trouble is that there is little support in the school. If they do not do their homework, they should be held back, but the school districts refuse and pass them on anyway. The other problem is the cockamamie way that they teach math. They come up with all sorts of convolutions that only hide the math and is more difficult to understand than the math itself. These "techniques" are detrimental to the kids. Privatize and see all of this change

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Union Boss: What’s the Rush on Increasing Teacher Quality?

When American Federation of Teachers President Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten proposed a “bar exam” of sorts for teacher prospects, it was hailed as a step forward in improving teacher quality, EAGnews.org reported.

But some of Weingarten’s underlings don’t know what all the fuss is about. She either didn’t run the idea past her deputies, or they didn’t approve and she trotted it out anyway.

Norwalk Federation of Teachers President Bruce Mellion said if teachers would be subjected to such a test, they better get a pay raise.

"What we're doing is testing, testing, testing, testing. At some point we need to...

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